So much love for this man

[netmouse]

Yes, ladies, he's MINE. :)
Originally uploaded by netmouse.

My favorite recent picture of Brian, which I took the morning of April 18. I just love so many things this captures about him. His humor, his strength. His broad shoulders...

It even shows his bear tattoo rather nicely. And of course his sense of style. :)

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It even shows his bear tattoo rather nicely.

Yeah, i noticed the ink and was going to ask about it. It almost looks like a Central American design "from here", but i'm curious if there's meaning, etc.

[flinx.livejournal.com]

Northwest Coast, actually, I designed it after Haida and Tlingit designs. I grew up in the Pacific NW, so the image vocabulary is familiar to me.

As for meaning... yes, several levels. If one identifies animals as totems, then Bear is mine. I got the tattoo as an event and emblem to commemorate having passed through a very difficult time in my life.

Also, you cannot see it in this shot, but the bear is also holding a 'copper' with an octopus design, which I put in there mostly because cephalopods are nifty.

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Very cool. ... and i can relate both to totemic guides and the commemoration of trials by storm.

Neither my wife and i were into tatoos as a "thing", but we decided to each get one when we got married. We each had something of symbol that we'd identified with for a long time, so we traded, each adapting the others' symbol into a style we liked.

Thanks for sharing that. It looked like it was something important, so i was inclined to ask. :)